Word: fortnights
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Local concerts are held about once a fortnight in various nearby towns such as Worcester, Lowell, Concord, N. H., New Bedford, Fall River, and Providence. At least one long vacation trip is arranged each year similar to those held during the last three years. The trip this year will include Chicago and mid-western cities...
...Assembly of the League of Nations proceeded methodically last week to elect nine states to nonpermanent League Council seats in accordance with the program approved by the Assembly a fortnight ago (TIME, Sept...
...Angeles, one Charles Y. Knight, an almost mythical personage, inventor of the sleeve-valve motor, now wealthy, retired and 56, might have beamed again last fortnight with the pleasure of the prophet honored anew in his own country. John North Willys (Willys-Knight, Willys-Overland) had just returned, with his wife and daughter Virginia, from two months in Europe, where as usual he had mixed business with pleasure. Debarked at Manhattan, he had said...
...George ("Kodak") Eastman, of Rochester, N. Y., has been spending the summer photographing and shooting big game in Kenya, Tanganyika and the Belgian Congo. Near Nairobi natives chaired him on their shiny shoulders for slaying an eight-foot lion with two express bullets. Last fortnight came a letter from Explorer Carl E. Akeley, with the Eastman party and in charge of collections for the African Hall of the American Museum of Natural History, saying that the Kenya veld, once a hunter's paradise, is now stripped of fauna. "The unhappy remnant . . . now has its ear attuned to the rattle...
...Greenland, in constant radio communication with the New York Times. Many a description of Arctic weather effects has been received, couched in Publisher Putnam's best editorial verbiage. Walrus, seals, narwhal and varied seafowl have fallen to the voyagers' trusty guns, a high moment coming last fortnight when the Putnams, father and son, and Dan Streeter touched off their rifles simultaneously into the bulk of a polar bear on a cake of pan ice. David Putnam, 13, veteran of William Beebe's last Galapagos cruise, had been spending days in the crow's-nest sighting...